Person:Edward Moseley (5)

On the 2nd of August, 1721, Col. Edward Moseley, of Princess Annecounty, gave a lot for the purpose of establishing a school, and "At ameeting of the Vestry (Linhaven Paris P. A., the 2nd March 1736, Onthe motion of Colonel Walke that the old Church wood be a Convenientplace to make a public school off for instructing children inlearning, that liberty might be given for ye appling it to thatpurpose; ye Vestry taking the same under their consideration &agreeing to the said proposall; also being of opinion that after it ismade commodious 'twould be an encouragement to induce a masterconstantly to attend thereon; do therefore unanimously resolve that yesaid Church be; and it is hereby given for the use aforesaid, and to &for no other purpose whatever." (From the Virginia Magazine ofHistory and Biography, Volume I, July, 1893, No. 1, , Notes andQueries, Free Schools and the Church in the Seventeenth Century, p.326.)